Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, they post a topic and encourage fellow bloggers to list their own top ten answers. This week’s prompt was to list the Top Ten Blogs/Sites You Read That AREN’T about Books. It will be so interesting to see how differently (or similarly) everyone’s tastes run! My list is below.

1. The Hairpin & The Awl
These sister sites are incredibly intelligent, whimsical, and poignant, by turns. I check them both every day and highly, highly recommend them.

2.2 Birds, 1 Blog
Updates are sporadic, but when these two blogging friends are on, they are ON, sharing bizarre stories of public transportation hijinks, “weekend hair,” and what MD 20-20 tastes like. I’m jealous of people who are unfamiliar with them and can go through their archives, reading their posts for the first time.

3. Tumblr
Probably the biggest time-suck on this list. (Feel free to follow me on Tumblr–my username is tarynwanderer.)

4. Slate
This is mostly for the “Dear Prudence” column, but I will click around when something catches my eye…even if it’s just comment-baiting.

5. Videogum
I only recently discovered this site, but it routinely makes me laugh out loud. Just last week the comments on this post had me crying, I was laughing so hard. The best and funniest commenters on the web, bar none.

6. io9
While I don’t really read Gawker or its properties anymore, I have stayed very loyal to io9. They do great reviews and round-ups of science fiction and fantasy books, in addition to funny lists and science news.

7. Topless Robot
For a similar audience as io9, TR covers nerdy comic books, movies, television, and everything in between with tongue firmly in-cheek. (For those of you with strong constitutions–and I mean it, these are incredibly NSFW–check out their skewering of terrible smutty fanfic on Fanfiction Fridays.)

8. Hark, a Vagrant!
For a while there, Kate Beaton was the internet’s best-kept secret. It’s really nice to see her (and her hilarious, history- and literature-themed webcomics) get the attention they deserve!